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TIL in 2017, Butch Trucks, the drummer and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, fatally shot himself in the head right in front of his wife of 25 years.

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lojAA TIL in 2014, Transformers: Age of Extinction (3rd sequel) was the highest grossing movie that year in China and until then the highest grossing movie ever there.
D1LOe TIL that there are two separate genes that determine eye colour, and which are dependent on each other. Depending on how these genes combine, it is possible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child.
m1wOR TIL that while each brain hemisphere controls half the body, both hemispheres see from both eyes, but each only sees the left or right half of each image from each eye
v1yVD TIL the words 'cream' and 'Christ' are cognates; they derive from the same root meaning 'anoint' (rubbing things together with oil both practically and religiously).
Vyp TIL that getting angry at someone when youre listening to them eating or breathing is called Misophonia, and its a brain disorder